About
Ryan O'Shea is a product manager and software engineer from Dalry, Scotland who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Before entering the software industry, Ryan had a 12 year career in edtech with Wall Street English and Pearson as a manager, trainer and teacher.
He also has a education and training in architectural design from the University of Strathcylde in Glasgow.
Fun fact: if he's running a workshop with a warm-up where the introduction needs a "fun fact", he usually says something about: Sandor Clegane, Pete Doherty, or Max Zander.
Stack
- Core
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean
- Tools
- Jira, Confluence, Figma, Miro, Notion
- Design
- Design Thinking, User Stories, Personas, User Journeys
- Research
- Qualitative, Quantitative, User Testing
- Analytics
- Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar
- Core
- HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Typescript
- Client-side
- SASS, Bootstrap, Chakra, MUI, styled-components, React, Redux, Next, Gatsby, Vue, Vuex
- Server-side
- Java, Springboot, Node, Express, Prisma, tRPC, MongoDB, Mongoose, Postgres
- Dev Tools
- Ubuntu, MacOS, VSCode, Bash, Git
- Deployment
- AWS, CircleCI, Netlify, Vercel
Since making the decision to develop a third phase of his career in the software industry, Ryan has added a set of tools and skills to work as a product manager or engineer.
Product
Engineering
Resume
This is the short version of Ryan's career and is optimised to support your decision making process. For more depth see his Linkedin page.
- August 2019 - May 2022
- Freelance Web Developer
- Berlin
- Management
- September 2005 - December 2016
- School Manager
- Wall Street Institute, Berlin
- Design
- October 1994 - June 1999
- BSc Architectural Studies